Italian Football Federation

Fucking Galliani, man.

And he'll probably dig up Berlusconi and sit his corpse next to him in the FIGC

building.

At this point, it wouldn't surprise me if they took the mummified corpse of Berlusconi and made him the FIGC president.

Just so they can have someone to hide behind.

This is like turning into when, what's his name, appointed his horse the Consul of Rome.

Yeah, exactly.

We're reaching that level of dysfunction here.

He's joked ever since that he might be the only coach in football history who got fired for winning too much.

Gentile later sued the Italian Football Federation for unfair dismissal, which was never resolved or resulted in a formal court ruling as his contract had expired and the court could not enforce the so-called gentleman's agreement between Gentile and Commissioner Guido Rossi.

which brings us back to Switzerland in 2014.

Sion's chairman was Christian Constantin, a genuinely wild character who over roughly two decades of ownership, burnt through nearly 60 head coaches.

I mean, I think that-

That's what I'm writing to the FIGC.

You cannot let people like this go.

You cannot.

[clapping] Give yourselves a round of applause.

To everybody at the FIGC, to everyone at Lega Calcio, [clapping] Calcio is back.

Calcio is back.

Give yourselves a round of applause.

Th- this, this is Italian football now.

It's such a microcosm of the problem of the Italian football at the structural level, whether it's the Serie A or whether it's, it's the FIGC, whether it's the clubs, whether it's the league.

This is where we are.

And we've, and Carlo and I have been saying it for six years.

What was it? Malago has voted to put the...

FIGC into administration, but then he is overseeing his own administration.

I really think that Europe is going to be like, look, we can either get rid of Infantino or Europe is leaving all international competitions and if necessary, we'll make our fucking own.

I think Europe is generally going to do that.

And then it's been raised that, oh, actually, he was not, um, properly signed up to the federation with subscriptions, um, at the time of the vote, and therefore his election is invalid.

Um, this all feels very politically driven because now people have dug into it and gone, "Well, actually, that person who won it previously hadn't done this step either." Um, but technically now he's had to vacate that post as the president of the Italian Football Federation, and this compromise was reached at the last minute where he's going to carry on as the interim until no longer officially the president, it's a slightly different title, until they have another, um, vote, um, I think next year is when it's going to happen.

But it was just one of these very odd backdrops to it all because his presidency, again, came in on 70% of the vote, and then there was the whole mess where they tried to hire Ancelotti and Guardiola unsuccessfully, and then they had Pirlo, who was-- looked like he was going to be hired, but then turned out, um, people weren't happy about his, uh, links to work he's done in Russia.

Then they turned to Mancini, and you have, um, Paolo Maldini and Leonardo, who's been working as his two right-hand men in the meantime, leave the federation.

You can't do it with a thing that will save your life if you have a recurrence.

The Italian FA, I give you it.

Um, it, it, it seems odd.

So he's come to us.